Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>

> > Ailly!  What if you don't have a word in your language for "parent"?
> > Just
> > "mother" or "father"?  In Teonaht, "parents" in the plural is
> > "nippanand,"
> > your "momdads."  How utterly hetero of the Teonim.  I suppose you could
> > say:
> >
> > Fretyn fyl nippanand!  ("Brothers (are/were) your momdads!")
>
> I've not yet got a Tairezazh word for "parent", so we'll go the really
weird
> way:
>
> Mana ne tato shai ak tezden!
>
> "Your mother and father were brothers!"
Yeah, that's pretty much how you have to say it in Teonaht.  Sounds like
what someone would say to Hychdwn Hir ("tall piglet")  about his punished
parents in The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.  (They WERE brothers!)  He
would also accuse him of having a sow and a boar for parents as well.  Now
that's what I call nody (weird).

Time for me to stop this obsessive activity and go out to the rommank, now
that the tsollai is shining, and plant the rest of my tyfelya.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."